That must be a general 3rd world rule- what’s yours is ours, whats ours is ours
At the end of the war in SEA I spent the last 6 months of the US deployment in Thailand, 2 different bases
Our sole mission was to stay at the bases and pull 24 hour 7 day shifts so the bases wouldn’t be totally stripped before they were turned over
The Thai military had done an “inventory” you see, and anything that was missing on the day we turned over the bases (like power generating equipment)- had to be replaced.
One building lost a massive HVAC unit before this all- night duty was implemented
The “inventory” team, we assumed, was doing a shopping trip to see what they could steal before we left
There was s legendary story about a base in the Philippines where the Filipinos drove a fire truck off the base with sirens blaring and lights flashing- never to be seen again
I remember that fire-truck story. I always wondered how they wrote up the loss...that would have been a classic ‘report of survey’.